Billing sheet



Oct. 8, 1929.

E. Z. LEWIS BILLING SHEET Filed March 24, 1924 Patented Oct. 8, 1929UNITED STATES EDWARD Z. LEXVIS, OF EVANSTON, ILLNO S, ASSIGNOR TOREMINGTON TYPWRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION' OF NEWYORKk BILLING SHEET Application led March 24, 1924.

rThis invention relates to a multiform billing sheet and consists of thefilling sheet hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out inthe appended claim.

The invention relates especially to the type of multiform billing sheetshown :in the Patent No. 932,713 heretofore granted to me on August 31,1909. Said patent is directed to a billing sheet comprising a number offorms, all printed on the same side of the sheet and arranged invertical succession thereon from top to bottom of the sheet, with thefirst form at the top of the sheet, of a height equal to the length ofthe circumference of a typewriter platen, and with the downwardlysucceeding forms progressively increased in vertical dimensions both asto height and as to the spacing between the horizontal lines of theforms in such proportions that, when wound, one upon the other on theplaten,y the tops of the forms will all fall, each upon that of the nextpreceding form.

The object of the present invention is to provide a billing sheet of thekind with means i by which it may be readily delivered from a ck of bil1s of the kind to a inultiforin billing attachment for a typewriter ofthe general kind shown in my PatentNo. 987,374, granted October 19,1909, when equipped with feeding or delivery means such as that shown inthe application for patent filed by ine on the 211th day of March, 1924,Ser. No. 701,270.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a view representing one form of the improvedmultiform billing sheet.

Fig. 2 a view of the rear face of the sheet l shown in Fig. 1.

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Fig. 3 is a view representing a rear face view of a somewhat niodiiiedform of the improved sheet.

Fig. i is a fragmentary detail view showing another modified form of oneend of the sheet.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view showing another modified form of the otherend of the sheet.

Referring to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Fig. 1:-10indicates the billing sheet. 11, 12, 13, 14; indicate four printed formson the front face thereof. Said forms may be of any character requiredinthe Serial No. 701,289.

creased dimensions and spacing (beginning with the top form 11 which isthe smallest form, and ending with the bottom form 14, which is thelargest form) as in the case of the billing sheet shown in my patenthereinbefore referred to, so that eachform may completely encircle theplaten of a typewriter when the sheet is wound around the platen with acarbon ribbon.

At the top of the sheet is provided an eX- tension or short flap 16,which is folded back against the rear face of the sheet. This flapprovides a tab or projection to be engaged by a finger which will slideupon the rear face of the sheet until it comes into engagement in thevangle of the fold between the flap and the sheet.

At the bottom of the sheet is provided a hole or perforation 17. Saidhole is arranged, as shown, in the middle of the sheet and its purposeis to receive a pin for supporting the sheet with others in a stack in aposition to be fed to a billing attachment for a typewriter, such asthat hereinbefore referred to. As will be understood, the stack of billsis supported by the aforesaid pin in a position with the top end of thebill down, as shown in Fig. 2. The pin preferably has a sharp or knifeedge so that when the feeding or delivery device, as for instance thefinger member or piece 18 shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, slides downin engagement with the rear face of the bill so as to strike and engagethe flap 16, the

pull exerted by the finger on the bill with which it is engaged will actt9 tear the knife edge of the pin through the end of the sheet near thehole 17 and thus release the sheet from the stack. The bills may thus befed one by one in succession to the platen.

Instead of the flap 16 the bills may be provided at their ends inposition to be engaged bythe feeding finger with a plurality ofperforations 19, as shown in Fig. 3. Said perforations are arranged tocorrespond with a plurality of fingers 2O so that when the stack ofbills is supported in proper position with reference to the billingattachment, said fingers will move in alignment with said perforations.If desired, and preferably in this case, the holes are arranged inalternate relation on successive sheets in the stack, as for example inan arrangement of four holes, two for each sheet, there would be the twoholes 19, 19 on one sheet and on the sheet next below two holes 19, 19ashown in dotted lines, and on the next following sheet two holes 19, 19and so on. rfhus, with a finger piece c mprising the two fingers 20, 20at the ends acting in line with the-two holes 19, 19 and twointermediate lingers 20, 20a acting in line with the holes 19a, 19, inone feeding movement of the finger piece, the fingers would engage thesheet having the holes 19, 19, the lingers 20H', 20, slidinginoperatively over the surface of the paper, thereby feeding the topsheet. In the next movement of the finger piece, the fingers 20a, 20awould engage in the holes 19, 192L of the next succeeding sheet, thefingers 20, 29 in this ease sliding inoperatively over the sheet (sincethere are in vthis case no holes 19, 19) thus feeding this sheet and inthe nent movement of the fingerpiece the fingers 20, 2O would engage theholes 19, 19 in the next succeedingl sheet, and so ona in Fig. e I haveshown still another formaw tion of the sheet wherein the paper is bentin a fold to provide a projection 21 adapted to be engaged by a fingerbar 22.

As will be manifest, the formation of the sheet for action upon it bythe feeding or delivering device will depend upon the character of thesheet feeding and delivering device itself. in addition, the location ofthe part of the sheet to be engaged by the feeding and deliveringdevice,-that is to say, whether it will be on the printed side of thesheet or on the reverse side or rear face of the sheet as shown in thedrawings, will depend upon the manner in which the feeding or deliveringdevice acts,-that is to say, whether it acts on the top of the stack ofsheets or whether it acts on the bottom of the stack of sheet-s.

Instead of a closed perforation as 1'? for engagement by the pin, theperforation may have a ,slit opening through one end of the sheet, asshown in Fig. 5, where 28 indicates the perforation and indicates a cutor slit opening from the perforation through one end of the billingsheet. In case the perforation of the sheet is so formed it would not benecessary for the pin on which the sheets of the stack are engaged andsupported, to have a knife edge as a dull or rounded edge would passthrough the slit 23a when the sheet is given a pull by the feedingdevice.

The Hap 16, or fold 21, or the stock between the top edge of the sheetand the pair of holes 19 or 19a, forms a feedtool-abutment adjacent tothe top of the sheet, which abutnient faces the perforation 17 or 23 atthe bottom of the sheet, and on which the feedtool moving lengthwise ofthe sheet, so acts in a feeding operation that the sheet is forced fromthe sheet-holding pin, the sheet reacting on both the feedtool and pinuntil it leaves the pin.

I claim as my invention A billing sheet embodying a feedtoolabutment andhaving a perforation lit to receive a sheet-holding pin, the abutmentand perforation beine adjacent respectively to the top and bottom ofthesheet, and the abutment facing towards the perforation.

1n testimony that l claim the foregoing as my invention, l afhx mysignature this elth day of February, A. D., 1924.

' EDWARD Z. LEU/TIS.

